Oxford listed among top 10 cities

3:40pm Monday 19th March 2012 in News

Oxford has been named one of the 10 ‘Micro European Cities’ of the future.

Foreign investment publication fDi magazine ranked European cities on their potential to capture future investment and expansion projects.

Oxford was ranked No 1 for human resources, and within the top 10 micro cities for quality of life.

The city also joined Oslo, London, Copenhagen and Bilbao with a score of nine out of 10 for proportion of labour force with a degree-level education.

Dr Martin Dare Edwards, chairman of the Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership, said: “Oxford and its wider county is undoubtedly one of the world’s best city regions for investment in
high-value-adding business, also benefiting from its excellent and improving transport connectivity, and exceptional quality of life.

“This recognition provides a superb opportunity for the city and county to further enhance its profile to inward investors.””

Courtney Fingar, editor of fDi Magazine, added: “fDi’s rankings reveal the cities and regions that stand the best chance of capturing future investment and expansion projects by multinational
companies, something that will become even more important should Europe and the world head into recession.”

In fDi’s ranking of the top 25 European cities overall, London came out top, followed by Paris, Vienna, Moscow and Reading.

Oxford was rated ninth among the top 10 micro cities for quality of life, with Monaco top and Luxembourg second.

Comments(2)

Dilligaf2010

says…

4:45pm Mon 19 Mar 12

Have these people actually been here?
Dilligaf2010

King Joke

says…

4:53pm Mon 19 Mar 12

Oxford has its problems like everywhere else, but on the whole the quality of life is excellent. Within 10 minutes’ walk of my house I’ve got wonderful parks, meadows, and the riverside, and buses to Heathrow, Gatwick and London 24/7. Within a few mins on my bike I’ve got the town centre for food and clothes shopping. A bus ride takes me to cinemas, decent restaurants and a whole load of quirky bars.

We could do with a John Lewis but you can’t have everything.

It isn’t bad really for a small place of only 150k people.
King Joke

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